Do you get your water tested?

[gunwhatgun]

I got to thinking after reading a few articles on purifying water at home in a SHTF situation, does anyone ever test thier system. If so how? Do you send the water off to be tested? Buy a meter of some type??

[xjsnake]

You can send the water to a lab to have it tested but it's not cheap. The test at home kits from the supermarket are really not all that good and are a waste of money.

 

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[Jamie Jackson]

We use a Big Berkey with the PF-2 Fluoride and Arsenic removal unit.

We've not sent the water off to be tested, but you can certainly tell by taste and smell that the overdose of chlorine our area dumps into the water supply has been removed.

 

To test the filters for routine we'll dump some red food coloring into the top tank. It filters it out clearly. I know that's not testing for removal of metals, but I'm pretty comfortable with the unit.

fwiw the water tastes better than any 'store-bought" water I've ever had.